The baboon shocked locals, and seemed to think it owned the town.

The male primate, at least a metre in size, was seen by a few residents near a bar on Second Street.

Tommy Scheepers, a resident, said: “It was huge, we couldn’t believe it. I just laughed when we saw it, I have never seen anything like that in my life. Some guy was chasing it in the street and then it ran up a tree near us. It sat there for almost an hour-and-a-half before it made its way into the nearby greenbelt.”

Baboons are terrestrial (ground-dwelling), and are found in open savannah, open woodland and hills across Africa.

They are foragers and are active at irregular times throughout the day and night. They can raid human dwellings, and in South Africa, they have been known to prey on sheep and goats.